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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (June 16, 2003) -- A vastly improved Denon, hero of
the Grade I Manhattan Handicap on Belmont Stakes Day, and Moon Ballad,
winner of the Grade I Dubai World Cup earlier this spring, head a group of
109 Thoroughbreds nominated to this summer's Grade I Arlington Million at
Arlington Park.

As the signature event of Chicago's Thoroughbred season, the Million, which
annually attracts the top turf specialists throughout the world, will
celebrate its 21st renewal on Saturday, August 16 when contested over
Arlington's world-renowned grass course at its classic mile and a quarter
distance.

Denon, owned by Edmund A. Gann & Flaxman Holdings, Ltd., underlined
his improving form June 7 by coming from well back to tally by three lengths
in the grassy 10-furlong Manhattan Handicap, contested one race prior to
Empire Maker's victory in the Belmont Stakes.

Hall of Fame trainer Bobby Frankel, conditioner of both Denon and
Empire Maker, has won two of the last three Arlington Millions, taking last
year's renewal with Juddmonte Farms' Beat Hollow and the 2000 edition of the
Chicago centerpiece with Chester House, another Juddmonte color bearer.

Also slated for the grass course August 16 as part of Arlington's
one-day International Festival of Racing will be the only other two Grade I
races offered in Illinois: the 14th running of the $700,000 Beverly D. for
fillies and mares and the 27th running of the $400,000 Secretariat,
restricted to 3-year-old turf specialists of world-class caliber.

Dubai World Cup hero Moon Ballad, owned by Godolphin, is one of
several prominent foreign-based Million nominees and is scheduled to run on
the grass in the Group I Prince of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot June 18.
Should the Irish-bred win that British event, he would equal the feat of
Godolphin's Dubai Millennium, who accomplished the World Cup/Prince of Wales
double in 2000.

Another European-based nominee to the 2003 Arlington Million is Mrs.
John Magnier's Hawk Wing, the Aidan O'Brien-trained 11-length victor in the
Group I Juddmonte Lockinge Stakes at Newbury May 17. Hawk Wing is scheduled
to run in the Group I Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot June 17.

Godolphin's Dubai Destination, another European-based Million
nominee headed for the Queen Anne, beat the highly regarded Rock of
Gibraltar two years ago in the Group II Champagne Stakes at Doncaster.
Rock of Gibraltar, owned by Sir Alex Ferguson & Mrs. John Magnier, finished
second in the Grade I NetJets Breeders' Cup Mile at Arlington last October.

Team Valor, WinStar Farm & Sunmark Partner's Ipi Tombe, a
Zimbabwe-bred mare who was a champion in South Africa and defeated male
rivals in the Grade I Dubai Duty Free at Nad al Sheba on World Cup Day March
29, is among the other international stars nominated to Arlington Million
XXI. Ipi Tombe, also nominated to the Beverly D., would join Allen E.
Paulson's Estrapade as the only female Arlington Million winner if she were
to capture the 2003 renewal.

Arlington Million nominees based in the United States include 3rd
Turn Stables LLC's Honor in War, winner of the Grade I Woodford Reserve Turf
Classic at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day; Juddmonte Farms' Requete,
Bobby Frankel-trained and second to Honor in War in the Woodford Reserve and
Denon in the Manhattan Handicap; and Juddmonte's Chiselling, winner of the
2002 Secretariat and still another under the tutelage of Frankel.

Should Chiselling win the 2003 Arlington Million, he would become
the second horse to complete the Secretariat/Million double in successive
seasons. Michael Tabor's Marlin won the 1996 Secretariat and followed up
with a victory in the 1997 Arlington Million. One year earlier, James Lewis
Jr.'s Mecke won the Million after finishing second in the Secretariat in
1995.

Ryehill Farm's Awad won the Arlington Million in 1995 after
capturing the Secretariat in 1993, and Masayuki Nishiyama's Paradise Creek
won the Million in 1994 after finishing second in the 1992 Secretariat.

FOR THREE-YEARS-OLD AND UPWARD. WEIGHT-FOR-AGE. By subscription of $500 each horse on Wednesday, May 14, 2003. Fee to accompany the nomination. Late Nomination of $2,000 (each horse) on Wednesday, July 23, 2003. All Million nominees will automatically be nominated to the 2003 running of the Stars and Stripes Breeders' Cup Turf and the Arlington Handicap with the nomination fee being waived. A Supplementary Nomination of $30,000 may be made on Friday, August 8, 2003, which includes entry and starting fees. (A refund of $27,000 will be made to any supplementary nominee that fails to make the starting field or upon production of a veterinarian certificate indicating that the horse is unfit to run.) Owners and/or trainers of nominated horses will be required to contact officials of Arlington Park or officials of the International Racing Bureau to pre-enter their horses on Friday, August 8, 2002, at a fee of $5,000 which will only be refundable on production of a veterinarian certificate indicating that the horse is unfit to run or fails to draw into the starting field; $10,000 additional to start. $1,000,000 Guaranteed, of which $600,000 to the winner; $200,000 to second; $100,000 to third; $50,000 to fourth; $30,000 to fifth and $20,000 to sixth. WEIGHT-FOR-AGE: NORTHERN HEMISPHERE: Three-Year-Olds, 120 lbs.;Fillies, 117 lbs.;Four-Year-olds and Upward, 126 lbs.; Fillies and Mares, 123 lbs.; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE: Three-Year-Olds, 115 lbs.; Fillies; 111 lbs.; Four-Year-olds, 122 lbs.; Fillies, Four-Years-Old, 118 lbs; Older, 126 lbs.; Mares, 123 lbs. This event will be limited to fourteen starters ([7] Non-North American starters and [7] North American starters). Preference will be given in the following order: (1st) (A) Grade/Group I Turf winners in 2003 - (B) Grade/Group I winners on Dirt; (2nd) (A) Grade/Group II Turf winners in 2003 - (B) Grade/Group II winners on Dirt; (3rd) (A) Grade/Group III Turf winners in 2003 - (B) Grade/Group III winners on Dirt. (Total earnings in 2003 will be used in determining the preference of horses with equal Grade/Group winners.) Horses that have not won a Grade/Group race in 2003, preference will be Total Lifetime Earnings. Failure to draw into this race at time of entry cancels all fees with the exception of the nominating fee(s). STARTERS TO BE NAMED THROUGH THE ENTRY BOX ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2003. Two (2) horses having common ties through ownership cannot start to the exclusion of a single ownership interest. Trophy to the winning owner, trainer and jockey. In the event this Stakes race is taken off the turf, it may be subject to downgrading upon review by the Graded Stakes Committee.

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